CA Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trouillot
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Anthropology Of The State

Close encounters of the 4th kind An exploration of the state of Industry 4.0 in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Espen Veen Hansen ◽  
Terje Berg ◽  
Dag Øivind Madsen ◽  
Simen Ekeland Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The State ◽  
Close Encounters

Close encounters of the 4th kind An exploration of the state of Industry 4.0 in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Dag Øivind Madsen ◽  
Terje Berg ◽  
Espen Veen Hansen ◽  
Simen Ekeland Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The State ◽  
Close Encounters

The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel‐Rolph Trouillot
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Anthropology Of The State

scholarly journals The State as God: On Bourdieu's Political Theology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Victor L. Shammas
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The State ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Anthropology Of The State ◽  
The Invisible

Bourdieu’s anthropology of the state can be interpreted as a form of political theology, premised on a panentheistic conception of the state, which is transcendental to social reality while simultaneously being lodged in all social matter. The state is a Leviathan that imposes a horizon of meaning beyond which social agents rarely, if ever, move. The anthropologist must transcend the doxic structures of the state by engaging in a labor of anamnesis, enacting a bringing-to-consciousness of the invisible and occluded operations of the state in its deployment of symbolic power, which serves to naturalize a series of dominant (yet arbitrary) categories, concepts, and representations. Bourdieu’s ontological vision can be summarized in the concise formula, ‘state = society = God.’ A guiding methodical imperative for sociologists of the state-as-divinity is extracted from Bourdieu’s lectures on the state: the Deus Absconditus Principle, which mandates detecting and uncovering the veiled divinity of the state in all aspects of social reality. It is the task of the anthropologist to channel, interpret, and challenge the panentheistic state.

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